Planning - Sound

As a group we discussed what music/sound should be used in our opening sequence, we finally decided on a child singing the song 'Ring a Ring a Roses' we sang the song at different tempos and decided that when the song was sang slowly it sounded very unnatural and intimidating. The song also has connotations of innocence of children as it was originally a nursery rhymes sang by children, this will help to add narrative enigma to our opening sequence as once the nursery rhyme is placed next to the video sequence the audience will also understand that something isn't right with the young girl. Our final reason behind choosing this certain nursery rhyme as the lyrics have connotations linking to the Black Death, this will also help to create tension for the audience as the young girl is depicted to be dead, this will also help to create tension.

Ring a ring o'roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down

(Lyrics found on http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/ring-a-ring-of-roses.html)

Throughout the Opening Sequence there will be ambient sound of the location we are shooting in (A woodland area) for example this would be: wind, tree's rustling etc. This will help to make the Opening Sequence look and feel professional. We would also like to have the non-diegetic sound of the young girl character laughing this will juxtapose the clip of the girl on screen and help to create tension and an haunted feel towards the Opening Sequence. 

We are going to add in the diegetic sound of a twig snapping, this will happen when the camera has tilted up the character's body and is about to reach the head. When the sound happens the camera will do a fast pan away from the body into the woods. By doing this it helps to add tension towards the audience they will also be asking a lot of questions about what is happening (narrative enigma).